Re: [gentoo-project] Introducing an optional files directory in the Portage tree with an embedded install condition and individual maintainers. (was Re: [gentoo-project] Proposal for add-on file utility (run after emerge update))

[Michał Górny]

Dnia 2013-06-16, o godz. 20:32:55
Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o> napisał(a):

> On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 20:20:53 +0200
> hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote:
>
> > On 06/16/2013 08:12 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> > > On Jun 16, 2013 9:52 PM, "hasufell" <hasufell@g.o> wrote:
> > >>
> > >
> > > --snip--
> > >
> > >>
> > >> Doing it via regular useflags is just wrong.
> > >>
> > >
> > > I'm sorry, but what's wrong with using USE flags?
> > >
> >
> > Use flags trigger rebuilds. Rebuild libreoffice for a doc useflag?
> > Have fun.
>
> If you introduce a separate set of USE flags that only reinstall the
> optional files and don't touch the rest, you don't have this problem.

And how would you do that? Sounds like a heavy magic with a lot of
inconsistency and problems whenever things start to depend one
on another.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny